Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Course

The program is only available to students in the discipline of mechanical engineering and enables creative students to pursue their interests in both engineering design and industrial design, with a focus on high-technology consumer product design. With a continuing international trend to accelerated product development, facilitated by new interdisciplinary group techniques such as 'concurrent engineering', there is growing need for graduates with multidisciplinary skills and an ability to communicate with professionals from other disciplines: this course is intended to address that need.

There is a common technological core for both the Bachelor of Engineering (four-year) and the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (three-year) courses offered at Monash University. The amalgamation of the common cores means that the double- degree still achieves the full objectives of both courses. Consequently, graduates will be able to synthesise advanced technology and consumer product design in the creation of new manufactured artefacts and will be able to facilitate cooperation in new product development teams by being sensitive to the different professional viewpoints of the team members.

The aim of this program is:

• to create graduates who are skilled in leading project design teams
• to facilitate communication between engineers and industrial designers
• to facilitate multi-disciplinary design teams.

Upon graduation students are expected to fully function professionally in both disciplines, separately or integrated, as a product design engineer.

Vacation work/industrial experience

In order to fulfil the requirements of the various degree regulations and Engineers Australia, all engineering students must complete 12 weeks of approved engineering work experience and submit a report on that work. Such work is normally undertaken in the vacations between second and third years and/or between third and fourth years (but may also be taken between first and second years). Students who have completed all academic requirements for their degrees are not eligible to graduate until this work experience has been completed and a satisfactory report submitted.

For information about professional recognition of Faculty of Engineering courses visit http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/undergrad/eng-03.html

The large majority of students entering the faculty have completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), and references in the following paragraphs are to the prerequisite VCE subjects. Some domestic and international students enter the faculty with equivalent qualifications, and advice about unit choice for students with qualifications other than the VCE may be obtained from the faculty administration offices. Foundation units are required for students who have not completed appropriate VCE studies.

Units from course 0032 Bachelor of Engineering in the field of mechanical engineering are taken during the double-degree. The order in which they should be taken is determined by prerequisite requirements and the opportunities presented by the timetables at Caulfield and Clayton.

The course progression outlined in the requirements for this degree are recommended; students should adjust their yearly enrolment program as needed, based on prequisites and timetable restrictions.

The award of an honours degree in engineering is based on academic achievement.

Students require a total of 240 points, comprising 150 points of engineering units and 90 points of art and design units.

Level one

• DGN1001 Design studio 1
• DWG1301 Drawing 1C
• ENG1020 Engineering structures
• ENG1030 Electrical systems
• ENG1040 Engineering dynamics
• ENG1060 Computing for engineers
• ENG1091 Mathematics for engineering
• OHS1000 Occupational health and safety

Foundation units

Students who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 Physics and/or Specialist Mathematics should select a foundation unit from the following. If two foundation units are required, the student should complete ENG1090 only:

• ENG1080 Foundation physics
• ENG1090 Foundation mathematics

Elective

For students who are not required to undertake a foundation unit:

• ENG1081 Physics for engineering

Total: 48 points

Level two

• ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
• IDE1112 Industrial design studio 2
• IDE1502 Modelmaking and workshop practice
• IDE1602 Product drawing
• MEC2401 Dynamics I
• MEC2402 Engineering design I
• MEC2403 Mechanics of materials
• MEC2406 Engineering design II

Total: 48 points

Level three

• DIS1103 Digital processes for art and design 1
• IDE2113 Industrial design studio 3
• IDE2114 Industrial design studio 4
• IDE2303 Ergonomics
• MEC2404 Fluid mechanics I
• MEC2405 Thermodynamics
• MEC2407 Electromechanics
• TAD1203 Introduction to design history and theory

Total: 48 points

Level four

• IDE3115 Industrial design studio 5
• MEC3451 Fluid mechanics
• MEC3452 Design III
• MEC3453 Dynamics II
• MEC3454 Thermodynamics and heat transfer
• MEC3455 Solid mechanics
• MEC3457 Systems and control
• TAD2214 Critical issues in design

Total: 48 points

Level five

• IDE3116 Industrial design studio 6 (12 points)
• IDE3814 Materials and manufacturing 2
• MEC3456 Engineering computational analysis
• MEC4401 Project I
• MEC4402 Project II
• two mechanical engineering electives. ENG4614/ENG4616 may not be included as one of the electives.

Total: 48 points

Students may exit from the double-degree program and graduate with one of the single degrees providing all requirements for that degree have been met.

Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design)

Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) in the field of Mechanical Engineering

Where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree the actual award(s) conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved, or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.